energy storage

WoodMac: Solar will play key role as microgrids more than double by 2024 on US island territory, helping mend a grid decimated by hurricane Maria in 2017.

Norwegian utility Statkraft has partnered with flow machine specialist redT on a fully-financed solar-plus-storage offering for the UK’s thriving C&I renewables market.

Operator REE to deploy €3.2bn until 2022 to back energy transition plans, with €1.53 billion earmarked for renewable integration and €215m for storage.

Deal follows on from the sale of central inverter business two months ago.

State secretary João Galamba tells PV Tech of plans to boost dispatchable renewables and shares figures and time frames for separate PV auctions this year and next.

Winners of April 2019 snap poll will have to decide whether new proposals for a PV scale-up and new auction scheme become hard law.

2MW Garden Island scheme developed by Carnegie poised to start supplying power to adjoining naval base in Western Australia.

Concessional loans could shorten solar’s journey towards cost parity in Thailand and more developed emerging markets, says new BNEF study.

Battery technologies hold most potential for nearly two-thirds of asset owners and managers polled by Aquila Capital.

After China connected a huge battery to a project combining solar, wind and other generation sources, a US utility project has just been announced which will likewise combine solar and wind with a grid-scale battery.